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...Lemaitre’s hard-boiled style of writing is perfectly matched by his translator Frank Wynne, who avoids any trace of sentimentality....
...The plot of Mirror of Our Sorrows is better crafted than the prose, which, while fluently translated by Frank Wynne, is pedestrian....
...Maybe everything I saw is a swampland swindle....
...As Frank said, the numbers can mean whatever you want them to mean. A close acquaintance may soon take a journey. OK, Frank has left for Hawaii. Sorry. Yes, he has taken the cash....
...In The Great Swindle, unfussily translated from the French by Frank Wynne, he makes well-judged use of an omniscient narrator to divulge the presentiments of his main characters....
...There was Anthony “Tino” DeAngelis, mastermind of the 1960s “salad oil swindle” involving futures purchased with loans backed by tanks of water with soyabean oil on top....
...Pity the Billionaire: The Hard Times Swindle and the Unlikely Comeback of the Right, by Thomas Frank, Harvill Secker, RRP£14.99, 224 pages Just over a year ago, a Gallup survey of American voters revealed...
...Three years after Cuba’s Rebel Youth newspaper published “The Big Old Swindle” – a scathing series calling for reform of a state-managed retail sector beset by poor management, corruption and abysmal service...
...Celfin Capital, a mid-sized investment bank in Chile, announced a restitution plan for its own clients on December 20 last year, about a week after the alleged swindle was revealed....
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